I used to love watching the #American version of the #AntiquesRoadshow.
I’m traveling and came across the #British version on one of these tv channels, and they just keep reminding me about #colonialism and #colonization.
So many #people #celebrating #looted items from their #families’ questionable #histories.
The hosts frequently ask what their guests plan to do with their “good #fortunes”, and I just don’t hear anyone saying #GiveItBack
#racism #entitlement #looting #history #stolen #giveitback #fortunes #histories #families #looted #celebrating #people #colonization #colonialism #british #antiquesroadshow #american
"It has been 11 days since we arrived in the city. Everything looks terrible here, we as #fascists have #destroyed everything, #looted shops, and #people are #afraid of us. On the second day, we listened to the 'Khokhlyatskoye' radio. They called us #occupiers," - the [#Russian] #soldier wrote in his #diary. "It's around 8:00 p.m. I managed to bring my wife two bags and a #blender. I wanted to bring her more, but there is nothing left. We have already #stolen everything,"
#stolen #blender #diary #soldier #russian #occupiers #afraid #people #looted #destroyed #fascists
“France's long-awaited restitution policy is finally here.
Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez.” #France #Museum #Decolonization #Looted @academicchatter @globalmuseum @histodons @decolonial https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/26/france-long-awaited-restitution-policy-is-finally-here
#france #museum #decolonization #looted
How many #looted #artworks have to pop up in the possession of Kurt Meissner before #museum #curators and #art #historians will verify in depth the #provenance of artworks that passed through his hands?
https://www.openartdata.org/2022/05/Meissner-provenance-museum.html
#glam #histodon #artist
#artist #histodon #glam #provenance #historians #art #curators #museum #artworks #looted
In #exhibition on #looted art, the actual victims of Nazi looting become an afterthought — and are even treated as interchangeable.
Thoughtful review of "Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art" at the Jewish Museum in 2021 on muddled presentations of Holocaust-linked art
https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=V38446959151
#art #review #writing #arthistory #histodon #claims #Holocaust #artcollectors
#artcollectors #holocaust #claims #histodon #arthistory #writing #review #art #looted #exhibition
Twice #looted
The paintings are owned by the #Czartoryski family whose entire #Gołuchów collection was seized by the #Nazis in 1941. However, #Poland ignored the family's ownership rights and made a restitution claim to #Spain which in turn ignored the family's counter-claim to prevent this second #expropriation of their #paintings
https://www.lootedart.com/VVP4CD190731
#looted #czartoryski #goluchow #nazis #poland #spain #expropriation #paintings
Extremely noticeable #KNOWLEDGE GAPS of ChatGPT in the #history of #Holocaust-related art claims make it clearer than ever the urgency of understanding the data #pipelines that feed the #AI language model.
What #filters are used in #OpenAI's data #preprocessing to EXCLUDE information? Who decides which information to exclude? What triggers exclusion?
#ChatGPT fills gaps with plausible -sounding disinformation - which is a disaster
#fair #tech #histodon #looted #memory #yadvashem #ehri #chatgpt #preprocessing #openai #filters #ai #pipelines #holocaust #history #knowledge
RT @IcomOfficiel@twitter.com
Investigation based on the research report from the Swiss Benin Initiative (SBI) finds that 32 #artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin in Swiss Museums were likely #looted I @artnews@twitter.com 🔎 https://ecs.page.link/XwpK6
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IcomOfficiel/status/1622531341504872449
RT @IcomOfficiel@twitter.com
🇮🇹Italy welcomes home the return of 60 #looted archaeological #artefacts worth more than $20 million, many of which had been on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum@twitter.com before their illicit origin was discovered I @Reuters@twitter.com ⌨️ https://ecs.page.link/7HFCg
One day in 2003, Oscar White Muscarella, an archaeologist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, took a stroll through his workplace.
Wearing a blue seersucker suit spiffed up by a paisley ascot, he pointed at a display of ancient Greek art. “Looted,” he told a Village Voice reporter. His assessment of a glass case of pottery: “All plunder.”
#obituary #muscarella
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/12/29/oscar-white-muscarella-met-museum-archaeologist-who-exposed-looted-artifacts-fakes-dies-91/
#looted #art #antiquities #artmarket #archeology #museum #histodon #mastoart #glam #newyork #arthistory #curators
#obituary #muscarella #looted #art #antiquities #artmarket #archeology #museum #histodon #mastoart #glam #newyork #arthistory #curators
The US has returned its first antiquity to #Palestine, a 2,880-year-old ivory spoon believed to have been #looted from an archaeological site in the Palestinian village of Al-Kum. A repatriation ceremony was held in Bethlehem in the West Bank.
#archaeology #antiquities #HeritageCrime @archaeodons @histodons
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/us-repatriate-first-looted-antiquity-to-palestine-2239461
#Palestine #looted #archaeology #antiquities #HeritageCrime
#Looted #Art #Restitution #Texts as #Data
The #provenance research and decisions of national commissions responsible for deciding whether to restitute artworks to heirs of victims of Nazi persecution are often published as PDF files in German with no links to authority files or identifiers.
What if we translate and analyse the restitution decisions listed by the Belvedere in #Voyant-Tools?
Corpus:
https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=d59473bf2175c8c010676427efd4ed08
Whitelist: keywords-9eb882927f83bde2e247b29ce930eda6
#voyant #provenance #data #texts #restitution #art #looted
Twenty-one precious #artefacts that were #looted by #British soldiers from the former #WestAfrican kingdom of #Benin 125 years ago have been handed over by Germany to #Nigeria amid laughter, tears, and some audible #frustration with the ongoing #silence of the country that first #stole them.
#colonialism #UnitedKingdom #theft #colonizers #POC #Africa #Germany #Overdue #GiveItAllBack
#artefacts #looted #british #westafrican #benin #nigeria #frustration #silence #stole #colonialism #unitedkingdom #theft #colonizers #poc #africa #germany #overdue #giveitallback
Lo fanno per la #pace e i #ValoriOccidentali...
v/ @RPerezChaves@twitter.com
RT @OpenLinkArtData@twitter.com
#Looted antiquities returned to #Turkey and Italy were seized from New York home of #Met #trustee Shelby White
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/looted-antiquities-returned-to-turkey-and-italy-were-seized-from-new-york-home-of-met-trustee-shelby-white
#museum
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OpenLinkArtData/status/1598909571250065408
#museum #trustee #met #turkey #looted #valorioccidentali #pace
Curious how well #sharing #clips of #youtube #videos works on #Mastodon
Here's a short clip from #JohnOliver's epic #expose on the #trafficking of #looted #antiquities
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxiVtbSpaBu3k_7uz8aA0wIAy0IMfil-cP
#investigations #crime #auction #museum #antiquities #looted #trafficking #expose #johnoliver #mastodon #videos #youtube #clips #sharing
As 2022 draws to a close, what is the situation with #Nazi-#looted #art and #duress #sales in France?
Is there real progress?
In 2020, #Artnet #News pointed out how little had been done in previous decades.
"Less Than a Month After the #Louvre Hired a Nazi Loot Expert to #Investigate Its Collection, She Found 10 Ill-Gotten Works Hiding in Plain Sight"
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/restitution-nazi-loot-louvre-france-1758900
#France has passed new laws and launched new #provenance #projects.
What are the results? #art #Holocaust
#holocaust #projects #provenance #france #investigate #louvre #news #artnet #sales #duress #art #looted #nazi
As 2022 draws to a close, what is the situation with #Nazi-#looted #art and #duress #sales in France?
Is there real progress?
In 2020, #Artnet #News pointed out how little had been done in previous decades.
"Less Than a Month After the #Louvre Hired a Nazi Loot Expert to #Investigate Its Collection, She Found 10 Ill-Gotten Works Hiding in Plain Sight"
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/restitution-nazi-loot-louvre-france-1758900
#France has passed new laws and launched new provenance projects.
What are the results? #art #Holocaust
#holocaust #france #investigate #louvre #news #artnet #sales #duress #art #looted #nazi